On to Greener Pastures…

Some of you might have noticed a few tweets from me about my ‘new role’. I start that new role Monday April 5th…more on that in a moment.

You also may be aware (or maybe not!) that I had been working for the Boy Scouts of America’s National headquarters within the marketing group.

Looking back

I started at the BSA as a consultant in September 2007 and provided project management & technology strategy services on their Sitecore Content Management System project. The initial tasking on the project was to implement Sitecore, migrate the main BSA website (scouting.org) and introduce the concept of Content Management throughout the enterprise.

Shortly after starting on this project I met a good friend (and someone that you should get to know too) Gene De Libero. Gene was the Project Manager for the vendor that the BSA had hired to implement and provide custom development services. I do have to say that meeting and eventually working with him on a few things, most notably our side project CIO Essentials.

During my time at the BSA, I saw the organization move away from flat-file HTML websites and migrate into Sitecore CMS as the platform of choice. There were some hiccups during the implementation and subsequent usage of Sitecore CMS but none were too terribly bad and are par for the course for most CMS implementations.

I learned a great deal about myself, people and bureaucracy while working at the BSA. I’ll leave it at that.

Moving Forward

So what will my new role be?

I’ll be the Director – Central Region for an Intellectual Property Litigation Support & Consulting company – Silicon Valley Expert Witness Group (SVEWG). I had previously worked for SVEWG in 2005 to 2007 and kept in touch with my ex-boss Rick over the years. One day a few months ago, Rick asked if I’d be interested in coming back to work…and I was.

In this new role, I’ll be responsible for driving new business for the Central Region of the US (Houston to Minneapolis) and managing current region business. In addition, I’ll be bringing my marketing and social media experience to the organization to help improve marketing for the organization.

My IT experience will come into play at SVEWG but since the company is a Small Business and has few IT assets, the IT aspect of the job will be minimal – which isn’t a bad thing.

So…I’m moving on. The BSA is behind me. Sitecore CMS is behind me. I think the new role is an excellent fit for where I am in my life right now and one that I’m grateful to Rick to have the opportunity to take on.

So…if you or anyone you know work in the Intellectual Property space, drop me a line and let’s see if there’s a way we can work together.

Best wishes to you Eric in your greener pastures. Great work at the BSA, when you were allowed.

http://ericbrown.com ericbrown

Thanks Jim.

I enjoyed working with & for you at the BSA. Let's keep in touch.

jasonmartin530

Congrats and good luck, Eric!

http://www.m2xc.com/ Mark Kenneth

Congratulations Eric! I do have a couple of contacts in that space, including legal skills here in Dallas – talk soon!

http://ericbrown.com ericbrown

Thanks Mark. Looking forward to catching up.

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About Eric

Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. is a technology and marketing consultant with an interest in using technology and data to solve real-world business problems. In recent years, he has combined sentiment analysis, natural language processing and big data approaches to build innovative systems and strategies to solve interesting problems. In addition, he is an entrepreneur and has recently launched Trade The Sentiment, a website/service for using Twitter Sentiment in trading and investing. He also likes to take photographs when he can.

About Eric

Dr. Brown received his Doctor of Science in Information Systems in 2014 with a dissertation titled "Analysis of Twitter Messages for Sentiment and Insight for use in Stock Market Decision Making". His research interests are currently in the areas of decision support, data science, big data, natural language processing, sentiment analysis and social media analysis.In recent years, he has combined sentiment analysis, natural language processing and big data approaches to build innovative systems and strategies to solve interesting problems.

In addition, he is an entrepreneur and launched a few companies with the most recent being a company focused on proving data analytics and visualization services.